Sorry for the delay. We're using EJB3 and we have the EntityManager injected. I don't see methods in EntityManager that allow us to get a handle on the Hiberhate SessionFactory - am I missing something? What we're really trying to do is use a Criteria to filter our query results from the database. Following that down, we can eventually do a getCriteria... Any thoughts? Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124902#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...